A Compleat Herbal

James Newton's folio herbal shows the plants themselves: copperplate engravings of everything an eighteenth-century physician or gardener might need to recognise, from asphodels and adder's tongue to the mandrake and the mulberry.

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Son thifles, Prickly Sow, Nippleworts

Plate 43 of 171, engraved for Newton’s Compleat Herbal.

Engraved plant figure: Son thifles
Free Sow-thifle G. other Iree
Engraved plant figure: Son thifles
Blen flowrd Another blen flour'a
Engraved plant figure: Son thifles
Comon Sow thisſle P. The leßer Smooth

Named on this plate: Son thifles, Prickly Sow, Nippleworts, Prickly Son, Thorny Shrub, Sow-thifle of Af-

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